I am in an abusive relationship with the technology industry Some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, an appreciation for folk music, and some other thoughts.

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

I cosign every single word of this

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* refers to turkey drumsticks as nacelles *

coding interviews are a joke and i'm gonna be so pissed if i can't get a job because i don't know how to find some "trick" to solve some toy problem that has nothing to do with developing and maintaining a massively complex compiler codebase, which is a thing that i *am* actually good at doing.

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

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I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan.

(thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

This ABI choice predates my involvement, but I'm one of the target maintainers. Please don't hesitate to file a bug about this. Maybe we can do something about those errors :)

GitHub - Swatinem/rust-cache: A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects - GitHub - Swatinem/rust-cache: A GitHub Action that implements smart caching for rust/cargo projects

You might find github.com/Swatinem/rus... helpful, it's widely used and can speed up rust compilation in GitHub actions by quite a lot

The Atlantic Did Me Dirty Early this summer I was interviewed by Rose Horowitch, an editor for The Atlantic. She told me that she had heard from a university professor that incoming students were struggling to keep up with the...

I saw that "why aren't the youths reading?" Atlantic article re-shared 8 gazillion times in the last week. Here's a response from the English teacher interviewed in the article: "The Atlantic Did Me Dirty."

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After many virtual talks w @dahlialithwick.bsky.social about what originalism is, why it sucks, & what we should do about it, tonight we get to have one such talk in person at Amicus Live!

Tune in, and for more on the subject, preorder my debut book The Originalism Trap!
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Happening soon and you don't want to miss it!

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Atop a dramatic red, white, and blue background is a pic of the cover of my book, The Originalism Trap! To the right of the book cover is my headshot and my name, Madiba K. Dennie. Underneath that, it reads as follows-- BOOK LAUNCH: June 7, 2024 | 7pm Restoration Plaza 1368 Fulton St Brooklyn NY 11216

Brooklyn come through!!

I'm delighted that local bookstore Café con Libros is holding a launch event for The Originalism Trap! We'll be at the Restoration Plaza on June 7 at 7pm

Use this link to RSVP--and to order a signed copy of my book!

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Donald Trump Already Got What He Needed From the Supreme Court Even if the justices don’t give him the sweeping immunity he’s asked for, their handling of the case is helping him run out the clock.

The Supreme Court heard Trump's claims of ~absolute immunity~ today and was too into the idea that it should remand for lower courts to sort out what gets immunity and what doesn’t

This could further delay prosecution and push accountability farther out of reach

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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I *need* you to listen to the deeply broken text-to-speech narration from this Google blog post. (They removed it after people pointed out how bad it was, but I promise you this was actual audio on a real official Google blog post.)

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If you want to write to hochel and tell her how much you fuckin g hate this, you should:

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Friends, we have a book cover & I'm feeling feelings! 🥹 Say hello to

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My book (!) is available for preorder now and everything -- she's becoming real ❤️

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